Comments on: The Party Line: Guidelines for Defining Sarah Palin

By: didionsmommy

didionsmommy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:21:16 +0000

total sarcasm … directed at palin as much as to maria bartirolo (and, ultimately, mass media in general) … here are some excerpt from maria’s gushing …

[Palin] said, you know, “[Hillary's] not what I would like to see represented in the White House, but she ran an awesome campaign,” is what she said to me.

You know, she, she is trying to be a champion, I think, for women, and talk about breaking through the, the glass ceiling, but not coming across too strong, and using words like awesome, really trying to appeal, I think, to, you know, being a regular folk.

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And then she referred to [her husband], which I thought was really cute–she referred to him as the first–Alaska’s first dude. So she comes out with these references that, that sort of immediately unnerve you and–putting herself in, in with the masses. But no, I wouldn’t call her a feminist.

gag!

By: Oneiroi

Oneiroi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:14:01 +0000

The new teen pregnancy thing, doesn’t really need to be exploited by Dems anyways.

I mean I’m sure the media will run with it and it’ll just waft as an issue in the background. Like it’s been with various topics in the general election.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:48:49 +0000

Ah, Lauren, while I agree that as a practical matter the daughter would have had a difficult time giving effect to a contrary decision, as a legal matter she officially wouldn’t. Alaska doesn’t currently have a parental consent law. One passed in ’97, but never went into effect as it bounced up and down the state courts until it was struck down by the Alaska Supreme Court last year (split 3-2) on state constitutional grounds. Two bills were introduced this past session to put a new one in place, HB 364 and SB 279, and while HB 364 passed the Alaska House it failed in the Alaska Senate, and SB 279 died in the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee.

By: Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:53:42 +0000

I agreee with DM….the teen-daughter-pregnancy thing is going to be deadly if Dems try to exploit it. Too much potential to bash them over the head on a number of fronts, abortion being the most likely.

By: Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:50:50 +0000

From Didionsmommy: 2. sarah palin is the cutest, most awesomest woman EVER.

Sarcasm alert?

By: didionsmommy

didionsmommy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:11:16 +0000

see it. smell it. touch it. hear it.

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oh, and i totally agree that the dems better keep their mouths shut re: palin’s daughter’s pregnancy. to screw around with that is a strategy bound for failure.

besides, maybe the teen pregnancy will keep some of the crazed evangelical moral judgment and hand-wringing (that flares to new heights every four years) to a relative minimum.

By: Ames

Ames — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:31:40 +0000

Damn. Now I have to read it. Buynim having a hard time picturing dm being enthused about Palin; do I see sarcasm?

By: didionsmommy

didionsmommy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:38:33 +0000

did anyone watch meet the press yesterday? the only two things i could come away with are:

1. maria bartiromo needs to stop using the collagen in her lips, and

2. sarah palin is the cutest, most awesomest woman EVER.

here’s the transcript … the first four pages have minnesota governor pawlenty running in circles about intelligent design. (brokaw did a pretty good job baiting him on the issue.) the palin love-fest starts after that …

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26483887/

while you’re reading, try to imagine maria trying to vocalize through two bratwursts.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:23:10 +0000

It does show failures of ab-only, but of course the McCain/Palin campaign are praising her for “choosing to keep the baby.” Granted, that would have been Bristol’s ONLY choice, considering parental consent laws on abortion in Alaska, as well as laws surrounding access to emergency contraception for minors. Which of course Palin supports. I do think it will have a “Jamie Lynn Spears” effect, i.e., Good for you, keeping that baby! But of course the uber-social-conservatives will have a scoff or two in the back of their minds.

By: Ames

Ames — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:06:28 +0000

Did see that – I think Dems would be foolish to try to make an issue of that, too, but seeing as Palin has no problem making her pregancies an issue, this one probably will become one of her own volition. Over at Yes to Democracy, JennyJinx makes the point that this could be an issue only insofar as it shows the failures of abstinence only education – which Palin supports. Interesting, but I don’t know…